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Friday, October 7, 2016

Troubleshooting CRT Television with HV (high voltage) is present but the screen is dark (blank)

There are several factors which can cause high voltage
present but the screen is dark (blank), but for now I am going to talk about
one of the causes.

Heater Circuit.

First be sure High voltage (HV) is present. This you can
easily confirm by listening (hearing), I have pointed out elsewhere on my blog
troubleshooting electronics using body senses like Sight, hearing, taste, smell
and touch is allowed.

So you can use any of those depending on the situation at
hand, they are also free gift from your maker just like oxygen and therefore
expect no bill at the end of the month by using them.

You can easily confirm the presence of HV by listening to
the CHAA sounds or feel for the static son the screen using the back of your
hand.

After you confirm HV is present, move on to small neck board
at the back of CRT TV, there is a glass tube where this board is connected and
inside it you should see something like a small bulb.

Usually if it is working it light up like a normal bulb, if
there is light on it means that the heater is okay and therefore should focus
your troubleshooting somewhere else.

If the bulb is off check the heater circuit and re-solder
all dry joints on the circuit including the heater pin at the CRT neck
board-very common to have dry joints here.

The source of heater is usually the flyback, so trace your
way there looking for more dry joints, open track or resistor.

Heater circuit use a.c voltage so you will not find any
diode or capacitor on this circuit, only a low value resistor which act as fuse
and therefore can go open or change value to high and both will affect this
circuit.

You can easily confirm if there is open circuit by using
meter set to low ohm (200 ohms) and test for continuity between the fly-back
(heater) pin and the heater pin at the CRT neck board.

5 comments:

This is an excellent first step to troubleshoot HV present screen dark. Relatively high current flows in the heater circuit. This serves to heat the joints on the crt neck board and heating and cooling eventually causes these joints to become "dry" Remember to use flux before re-soldering. Also eyeball the position of the screen adjustment pots. Expect them to be near center. If not suspect "unauthorized engineers" have been tampering with these adjustments. Take a quick voltage check on the screen pins of the CRT.

i have a problem with my crt tv it had power problem,and its only when the current is low it will come up while it was not so at frist, i will put it on and switch it off and i will have to wait for 2min or so for the red light(stand by)to flesh and thats the very moment i have to put it on if not it wont come up,i now bought universal power supply but dont know how to connect it please help